Press Release: Washington Examiner to Expand into a Nationally Distributed Magazine with a Broadened Editorial Focus

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DENVER – Today Clarity Media Group announced plans to relaunch its weekly magazine, the Washington Examiner, with a new look, an expanded editorial range, and an increase in its distribution.

Currently available only to lawmakers, decision-makers, and others involved in D.C.’s political process, the expanded publication will launch on Jan. 1 with new life and culture content and a nationwide subscriber footprint. Under the continued editorial leadership of Editorial Director Hugo Gurdon, the expanded magazine will publish 44 issues per year.

“Over the years, we’ve frequently been asked if individuals outside of the Beltway could subscribe to the publication,” said Ryan McKibben, President and CEO of Clarity Media. “With this expansion and relaunch, our aim is for the new, national Washington Examiner to build on its position as a leader in providing a conservative perspective on the events of the day.”

Since 2005, the Washington Examiner has been a vital voice in the nation’s politics. Beginning with the Jan. 1 issue, the magazine will expand its editorial focus with new sections and columns that tap into the interests of a nationwide subscriber base. Among the new features are:

  • Your Land – A new section with stories about the evolving social culture and mores of America. This content speaks to the core values of the nation, and how changes to them are being promoted and resisted by different groups.
  • Life & Arts – A new section with columns by people in varied walks of life. These will include Outdoor Life, Life in Uniform, Traveling Life, and several others. Regular columns on culture, books, and sports will also be included.
  • The new Washington Examiner will also include a personal finance column in its Business section, a crossword, and a regular obituary column.

Readers will get all these additions, and at the same time they will lose none of the news, analysis, and features on politics and policy that they have come to rely on in the existing Washington Examiner magazine. The politics and policy sections will be combined into a Washington Briefing section in the new magazine, and it will include every element of the magazine current subscribers already know.

“Our readers have always turned to us for the best in breaking news and in-depth analysis on policy and politics,” said Gurdon. “The new Washington Examiner will include all of the news, analysis, and commentary that readers have come to expect for nearly 13 years, but now it will also include a great many regular new features that appeal to a more diverse array of readers across the U.S.”

The Washington Examiner has hired Seth Mandel, op-ed editor of the New York Post, to be executive editor of the print magazine, reporting to Gurdon. They are hiring a small team who will work with the rest of the newsroom reporters and editors to produce the new national magazine.

The cost of an annual subscription will be $119, and the redesign will be reflected across all of the publication’s digital assets which attract more than 10 million unique visitors a month. The current magazine has a print circulation of 40,000 in the greater Washington, D.C. area. The expanded national distribution will significantly grow the circulation with the support of the Washington Examiner’s publisher MediaDC, a subsidiary of Clarity Media Group.

Denver-based Clarity Media Group owns the Washington Examiner and The Weekly Standard magazines in Washington, D.C., as well as the Colorado Springs Gazette daily newspaper and weekly magazine Colorado Politics.

MEDIA CONTACTS: Alex Rosenwald, [email protected], 202-459-4947 or Jillian Anderson, [email protected], 330-980-3053.

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